Author ORCID Identifier
Arthur Carvalho: 0000-0002-5381-3588
Chad Anderson: 0000-0002-7163-5578
Liudmila Zavolokina: 0000-0002-0762-3505
Abstract
Information systems (IS) conferences, as venues for the introduction of new knowledge to the IS community, require effective peer review systems to evaluate submitted research for quality, validity, and originality. We argue in this paper that questionable practices and degrading review quality may arise without direct incentives beyond reviewer altruism to engage in the peer review process. In particular, we highlight potential issues with arguably common practices in some IS conferences, such as peer review invitations sent to researchers who have also submitted papers for publication consideration and the increasing number of reviews performed by graduate students. To address these issues, we suggest three solutions: 1) quid pro quo rules; 2) the use of incentive-compatible methods whose scores are linked to relevant rewards; and 3) the use of blockchain-based tokens in tandem with smart contracts and zero-knowledge proofs. We conclude by offering directions the IS community can take to further study the highlighted issues and implement the proposed solutions.
Recommended Citation
Carvalho, A., Anderson, C., & Zavolokina, L. (in press). Designing Incentives for Attracting Peer Reviewers to Information System Conferences. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 54, pp-pp. Retrieved from https://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol54/iss1/33
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